Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-30
THE TIE THAT BINDS.

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Highly Successful Celebration Of th,
> 6Sth /. D. O. F. Anniversary.
An Imposing Parade of Local Lodges
and visitors-Exercises at Renshav
Hall-The Ball ut Night-The Most
Successful Affair Ever Seen Here.
j Yesterday the sixty-eighth anniversary
of Odd Fellowship was celebrated with
great eclat in Butte. An air OF gayety
pervaded the streets from morning, and
crowds began assembling en- Main
street. until, as 1 O'Clock drew near,
it seemed that everybody had concluded
to desert everything else and look at the
parade. The stores did an unusually good
business yesterday, being crowded with
purchasers before and after the process
sion.
It was nearer 2 than 1 O'Clock when the
white tunics of the Alice band were seen
descending the hill from Walkerville, fol-
lowed by Olive Branch. No. 20, with sixty
five members. At Ridgely Hall they were
Joined by chat lodge, and then proceeded
to Fidelity Hall on West Broadway, where
the procession was formed by Grand Mar
shal McMurphey and Grand Patriarch
Pinkham.
THE ORDER Of MARCH
was as follows: The Grand Marshal, Grand
Patriarch Pinkham and Guide M. G.
Kinney on horseback; the Alice Union
Guard Band; Colfax, No. 20, OF Anaconda,
thirty men; Olive Branch. No. 2s, OF Walk
e%rville, sixty men: Apollo, No. Is, ofDillon;
Ridgey, No. IL, seventy-five men; the
Glendale Band; Fidelity, No. 8, sixty-six
men, three carriages containing Grand
Lodge members and other visiting digni-
ta'ies, and Wildey and Summit Encamp-
ments bringing up the rear with about
thirty members. The line of march as
already advertised was faithfully observed.
The column set out about 2 o'clock and to
the inspiring music of the two excellent
bands mentioned covered the space in less
thar an hour. TIL sidewalks were damned
along the route, many passing on by cut
offs to view the procession a second and
third time.
A RENsHAw HALL.
At 3 O'Clock the seats were all occupied.
They had been pre-empted by spectators
to the almost total exclusion OF the march
ing Odd Fellows, who had to stand through
the hour and a half of exercises orgo home.
Enough Odd Fellows remained to fill what
space was left outside of the chairs which
barely covered half the floor. The plat
form was filled with representative Odd
Fellows of the Territory among whom may
be mentioned the following Past Grands:
Stees, of Anaconda; Holmes, Foster, White.
Hendrew, Pascoe, Gray, McMurphey, Pink
ham, Bishop, Shovel, Bryan, J. c. Owens
and Peter Lansing, of Deer Lodge; Rich
ards. of Missoula, John Bradley, the Oldest
Odd Fellow in the Territory; Noble Grands
Tibet, A. Bernstein, s. A. Williams, Vice
Grand Meiklejohn, besides many others.
Past Grand Stees called the assembly
to order and a crowd OF small
boys temporarily ceased playing hide
and seek in the crowd long enough for Bro. /
Stees to be heard making a request on the |
part of the managers of the bali at night
that the men in the audience would not |
dirty the floor with tobacco juice to the
detriment OF the ball room in the evening.
Some babies in the crowd protested against !
this arbitrary ruling, but were o~verpowered
by the Alice Band playing the "~Stradella"
overture, which was a very creditable rem
dition. The infants in arms dissented from |
this opinion, however, with the full power
OF their lungs. They are hard to please
and expressed their disapproval freely yes
terday afternoon. The opening ode came
next, followed bya prayer by the Chaplain,
l. ". Miller, of Glendale.
Past Grand McMurphey asked as a special
favor that children be kept from running
over the floor, thereby interrupting the
harmony OF the proceedings. Being a mar
ried man, he prudently abstained from any
direct reference to the infants, but it was
teIt that he meant them too. They unani-
mously ignored the sarcasm and cried when
felt like it for the rest of the afternoon.
Secretary White read the p~roclalnations
OF the Sovereign Grand Lodge. of Balti-
more and of the Grand Lodge of Montana,
setting apart the day.
A colloquy on Odd Fellowship took place
Past Grands Holmes and Rich
ards, which showed the objects of the or
der, it's liberalitv and freedom from domi-
nation by any creed.
PAST GRAND sTEEs
5hen addressed the audience. He began
With deprecatory remarks about his selec-
ion to preside, and without much circum-
ocation spoke about the sixty-eighth ami
'ersary of Odd Fellowship they were cele-
From the start it did not have
lear sailing. It had everything outside of
Odd Fellowship to fight. At the time it
as instituted in the United States a great
ight was going on in the country in regard I
o secret societies. The anti-Free Mason
rusade on account OF Morgan came to t
sccentuate the feeling against the order. !
i'd Fellowship participated in the gen. '
"a! dlstrust and fear of secret a
yUno r~ III !
n carriages and sleeping
N down beds those days. But it has e
rospered in spite OF opposition. From e
TX members in 1913 it has increased to g
thousands. For the good it has done look il
t the vast amount expended according to a
ne statistics OF the Grand Lodge.
AN SUN :,
as been set apart to take care of suffering t
rothers, widows, orphans and bury the h
cad. Odd Fellow is a peculiar name for h
society. This society is odd. Why?
it practices something that no -
Their does practice. It takes care OF the ;,
and widows and orphans. Did any. =
ne ever see the child OF an Odd Fellow who a.
led IN good standing going about the 8
5reets naked and ~barefooted? He had been .
'rty years in the order and had yet to see :.
ne first instance. He had carried nan a ;"
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OF life to widows ofdeceased Odd "
elbows, himself, and seen their orphan chill
rem sent to school. He had never seen the
Ike done in any church. He meant no in. a
ldlous comparisons, but that was simple t
Ict. Active benevolence was n
THE DISTINCTIVE FEATURE q
ODD Fellowship, and while all churches IL
charity more or less nom of them '"
cyan to approach Odd Fellowship in the o
tactical relief of distress. At the same y, W
me Odd Fellowship was the stepping II
one for the church. They don't ask what =.
'ligion you belong to. All they ask a man -
to come in and be one among us ana be ~
true man. Thespeaker then particularly "
irected his remarks to Colfax lodge. u.
by your bylaws and your consti- q
ltion," said he. land you wont 90 wrong. ~
you become acquainted with a young ~
ian or an old one either seeking introduc, a
to your lodge-see that he is the right 81 !
ind OF man-such a man as you could in u
'oduce to your wife and children" Odd o.
fellowship is a family. He encouraged his y,
carers not to be satisfied simply with "
cling as good as he and his contemporaries u
ad been, but to go on and be better Odd r.
elbows than they. He deprecated his "
carers being satisfied with attaining the ~
ame measure of excellence as their pre- Ct
He said they should 90 on and